Friday's Miscellany 10-08-2021

 Africa Center for Strategic Studies

• Domestic Disinformation on the Rise in Africa
  

 Amnesty International

• Togo: Hackers-for-Hire in West Africa: Activist in Togo Attacked with Indian-Made Spyware
  

 Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center (AFHSC)

• Medical Surveillance Monthly Report (MSMR), August 2021, v. 28, no. 8
  
• Mental health disorders and mental health problems, active component, U.S. Armed Forces, 2016–2020
• Brief report: Prevalence of screening positive for post-traumatic stress disorder among service members following combat-related injury
• Mental health disorders, behavioral health problems, fatigue and sleep outcomes in remotely piloted aircraft/manned aircraft pilots, and remotely piloted aircraft crew, U.S. Air Force, Oct. 1, 2003–June 30, 2019
• Surveillance of mental and behavioral health care utilization and use of telehealth, active component, U.S. Armed Forces, Jan. 1, 2019–Sept. 30, 2020

 Army University Press

• Army Expansions: Augmenting the Regular Army during War
  

 Atlantic Council

• China Pathfinder: Annual Scorecard
  
• Global Britain: An American Review
  
• Raising the Colors: Signaling for Cooperation on Maritime Cybersecurity
  
• Una Squadra Vincente: The US-Italian Defense-Industrial Partnership
  

 Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies (BESA)

• AfPak Takes on New Meaning with the Rise of the Taliban
  
• The French Double Standard on Fighting Terrorism
  

 Belfer Center for Science & International Affairs

• Rational not Reactive: Re-evaluating Iranian Cyber Strategy
  

 Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC)

• Keeping Travel Open: A Vaccine Anywhere, A Vaccine Everywhere
  

 Brookings

• The Racial Implications of Medical Debt: How Moving Toward Universal Health Care and Other Reforms Can Address Them
• Regulating Stablecoins Isn’t Just About Avoiding Systemic Risk
  
• The Ruinous Price for Africa of Pernicious ‘Perception Premiums’
  
• Social and Development Impact Bonds by the Numbers: October 2021 Snapshot
  
• Strategies for Effective Health Care for Africa in the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Bridging the Gap between the Promise and Delivery
  
• Strategies for Effective Health Care for Africa in the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Bridging the Gap between the Promise and Delivery
  

 Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

• India’s Fog of Misunderstanding Surrounding Nepal–China Relations
  

 Carr Center for Human Rights Policy [Harvard]

• Human Rights and the Pandemic: The Other Half of the Story
  

 CATO Institute

• Discrimination, Managers, and Firm Performance: Evidence from “Aryanizations” in Nazi Germany
  
• Fifty Shades of Quantitative Easing: Comparing Findings of Central Bankers and Academics
  

 Center for a New American Security (CNAS)

• Tangled Threats: Integrating U.S. Strategies toward China and North Korea
  

 Center for American Progress (CAP)

• 5 Things U.S. Policymakers Must Understand about China-Africa Relations
  
• Creating a Domestic U.S. Supply Chain for Clean Energy Technology
  
• The SEC’s Regulatory Role in the Digital Asset Markets
  

 Center for Global Development

• Are We Entering a New Age of Pandemics?
  

 Center for International Policy

• Profiteers Of Armageddon: Producers Of The Next Generation Of Nuclear Weapons
  
• USAPM: Climate Change
  

 Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity (CLTC)

• Cyber Oversight Effectiveness Development: A New Approach for Boards of Directors
  

 Center for Security and Emerging Technology

• CSET Map of Science  
• Map of Science Updates and User Interface Launch: What’s New?
  

 Center for Security Studies (CSS)

• Analyses in Security Policy
• No. 291: European Fighter Programs: A Preliminary Assessment
  
• No. 292: From Robots to Warbots: Reality Meets Science Fiction
  

 Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessment (CSBA)

• Living within One’s Means: Revisiting Defense Acquisition and Affordability
  

 Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

• Chinese Military Dynamics and Evolving Strategy: Graphic Net Assessment
  
• Chinese State Capitalism: Diagnosis and Prognosis
  
• Do Not Blame Trade for the Decline in Manufacturing Jobs
  
• National Security and the Innovation Ecosystem
  

 Center for Strategic Research (SAM - Turkey)

• The Future of the Libyan Quagmire: Challenges and Prospects 
  
• Syria: What’s Next?
  

 CNA

• Advancing 21st Century Policing during the COVID-19 Pandemic
  
• A Case Study Demonstrating CNA’s Social Media Analysis Capabilities: USMC Twitter Activity Relating to the 2021 Extremism Stand-Down
  
• China's Defense Exports: Small Volume, but Room for Growth
  
• DOD Continuums of Harm
  
• Field Training Programs in Law Enforcement
  
• Maritime Sabotage: Lessons Learned and Implications for Strategic Competition
  
• The PLA and Intelligent Warfare A Preliminary Analysis
  
• The Psychology of (Dis)information: A Primer on Key Psychological Mechanisms
  
• Racial Extremism in the Military: A Continuum of Harm
  

 Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)

• Ensuring Democracy while Protecting Canadian National Security
  

 Centre for Military, Security and Strategic Studies

• Journal of Military and Strategic Studies, 2021, v. 21, no. 1 
  
• The 3M Affair in Canada-China Relations, 10 December 2018 – 24 September 2021, and Why for Canada it May not be Over Yet
• Changing Participation in War: Is a Paradigmatic Shift Underway?
• Syria – A Hybrid War Case Study
• Energy Intake, Weight, and Body Composition of Canadian Soldiers Participating in an Arctic Training
• The Short Road from the COVID-19 Pandemic to the Information Warfare Pandemic

 Chatham House

• Iraq’s Electoral System: Why Successive Reforms Fail to Bring Change
  
• Raising Climate Ambition at COP26
  

 Chicago Council on Global Affairs

• Americans Remain Committed to South Korea, View North Korea as an Adversary
  
• A Foreign Policy for the Middle Class—What  Americans Think
  

 China Aerospace Studies Institute (CASI)

• The U.S., China, and Artificial Intelligence Competition Factors
  

 Clingendael - Netherlands Institute of International Relations

• Strategizing EU Engagement with Syrian Diaspora CSO's
  

Congress. House. Foreign Affairs Committee

• Development Assistance During Conflict: Lessons from Afghanistan
  

 Congress. House. Homeland Security Committee

• 20 Years After 9/11: Examining Emergency Communications
  

 Congress. House. Oversight and Reform Committee

• Hurricane Ida and Beyond: Readiness, Recovery, and Resilience
  

 Congress. House. Science, Space and Technology Committee

• Balancing Open Science and Security in the U.S. Research Enterprise
  

 Congress. House. Transportation and Infrastructure Committee

• Emerging Contaminants, Forever Chemicals, and More: Challenges to Water Quality, Public Health, and Communities
  

 Congress. Senate. Commerce, Science, & Transportation Committee

• Enhancing Data Security
  
• Protecting Kids Online: Testimony from a Facebook Whistleblower
  

 Congress. Senate. Judiciary Committee

• Subverting Justice: How the Former President and His Allies Pressured DOJ to Overturn the 2020 Election
  

 Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

• How Changes in the Distribution of Earnings Affect the Federal Deficit
  
• Illustrative Options for National Defense Under a Smaller Defense Budget
  

 Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)

• Major Power Rivalry in South Asia

 Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)

• Insider Risk Mitigation Self-Assessment Tool
  

 Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies

• Security Nexus, 2021, v. 22  
• Vaccinate the Pacific!
  

 Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)

• Global Rivalry in the Red Sea: A ‘Geopolitical’ European Union Should Encourage Cooperation in the Red Sea Region
  
• Renewable Energy Will Lead to Major Shifts in Geopolitical Power
  

 Department of Defense (DOD)

• Department of Defense Climate Adaptation Plan  
• Information Technology Agency Summary
  
• Mandatory Coronavirus Disease 2019 Vaccination of DoD Civilian Employees 
  

 Department of Defense, Office of Inspector General (DODIG)

• DODIG-2021-131 Audit of Department of Defense Middle Tier of Acquisition Rapid Prototyping and Rapid Fielding Programs
  

 Department of Homeland Security

• DHS Climate Action Plan
  
• DHS Actions: Climate Change
  

 Department of Homeland Security Inspector General

• OIG-21-71 FEMA Must Take Additional Steps to Better Address Employee Allegations of Sexual Harassment and Sexual Misconduct
  
• OIG-21-72 Evaluation of DHS’ Information Security Program for Fiscal Year 2020
  
• OIG-21-73 FLETC’s Actions to Respond to and Manage COVID-19 at Its Glynco Training Center
  

 Department of State

• 2021 Climate Change Adaptation Plan
  

 Department of the Navy

• One Navy-Marine Corps Team: Strategic Guidance from The Secretary of the Navy
  

 Economic Research Forum

• Inequality of Education Attainment in Jordan: Patterns and Trends
  
• The Juba Power-Sharing Peace Agreement: Will It Promote Peace and Democratic Transition in Sudan?
  

 Egmont Institute

• Readiness as a Mission: Implications for Belgian Defence
  

 European Asylum Support Office (EASO) 

• The Concept of Safe Third Countries Applied in EU+ Countries
  
• Judicial Analysis: Ending International Protection - 2nd edition
  
• Resettlement and Humanitarian Admissions
  

 European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats (Hybrid CoE) 

• Hybrid CoE Working Paper 12: Calibrating the compass: Hybrid threats and the EU’s Strategic Compass
  

 European Union (EU)

• Country Report, Gender Equality: How are EU Rules Transposed into National Law? : Lithuania 2021
  

 European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS)

• China's Data Strategy: Creating a State-Led Market
  
• Yearbook of European Security 2021
  

 Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

• FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, October 2021
  
• Perspective: Enhancing Your Agency’s Image During Challenging Times
• Implementing an Intelligence-Led Policing Process
• Leadership Spotlight: Tribal Supervision
• Trauma-Informed Policing and Building Trust

 Financial Action Task Force (FATF) 

• China's Progress in Strengthening Measures to Tackle Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing
  
• Finland's Progress in Strengthening Measures to Tackle Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing
  
• South Africa's Measures to Combat Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing
  

 Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

• Turkey’s Passage to Great Power Status?  

 Foundation for Strategic Research (Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique)

• Promoting “Soft Connectivity”: China’s Standards-Setting Reforms and International Ambitions
  
• Towards a Jihadist Neo-Sanctuary in Afghanistan?
  

 French Institute of International Relations (Institut Français des Relations Internationales)

• A Changing Germany: The Party System tested in the 2021 German Federal Elections
  
• Strategic Calculation: High-Performance Computing and Quantum Computing in Europe’s Quest for Technological Power
  

 Future Directions International

• India’s Dilemma: Strategic Autonomy or New Alliances? 
  

 German Institute for International and Security Affairs (GIISA)

• Expeditionary Capital in the Eastern Mediterranean: Why Turkey Matters to China and Vice Versa
  
• Making Sense of Turkey’s Cautious Reaction to Power Shifts in Tunisia
  
• Small Steps Amid a Pandemic:  The Portuguese EU Council Presidency
  

 Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime 

• Journal of Illicit Economies and Development, 2021, v. 3, no. 1
  
• Synthetic Drug Production in Belgium – Environmental Harms as Collateral Damage?
• Comparative Analysis of Illicit Supply Network Structure and Operations: Cocaine, Wildlife, and Sand
• Forests, Coca, and Conflict: Grass Frontier Dynamics and Deforestation in the Amazon-Andes
• Addressing Socio-Environmental Challenges and Unintended Consequences of Peruvian Drug Policy: An Analysis in Two Former Cocalero Valleys
• Sanction Avoidance and the Illegal Wildlife Trade: A Case Study of an Urban Wild Meat Supply Chain
• Narcotrafficking and Land Control in Guatemala and Honduras
• Addressing Coca-Related Deforestation in Colombia: A Call for Aligning Drug and Environmental Policies for Sustainable Development
• Illicit Crop Cultivation in Colombia’s National Natural Parks: Dynamics, Drivers, and Policy Responses

 Global Network on Extremism & Technology (GNET)

• “Digital Soldier Reporting for Duty”: Far-Right Reactions to Major App Outages
  

 Globsec

• GLOBSEC Tatra Summit Insight Report 2021
  

 Government Accountability Office (GAO)

• Federal Research: Agency Actions Needed to Address Foreign Influence GAO-22-105434
  

 Hague Centre for Strategic Studies  (HCSS)

• Red Lines & Baselines: Towards a European Multistakeholder Approach to Counter Disinformation
  

 Harvard Law School

• National Security Journal, 2021, v. 12, no. 2
  
• The Evolution and Jurisprudence of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review
  
• Contemptuous Speech: Rethinking the Balance Between Good Order and Discipline and the Free Speech Rights of Retired Military Officers
  
• Before “National Security”: The Espionage Act of 1917 and the Concept of “National Defense”
  
• Collective Cyber Countermeasures?
  

 Heritage Foundation

• Improving America’s Long-Term Military Recruiting Outlook
  
• New Japanese Leader Provides Stability for U.S. Alliance
  

 Human Rights Watch

• Enforced Misery: The Degrading Treatment of Migrant Children and Adults in Northern France  

Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF)

• Emerging Industrial Policy Approaches in the United States
  

 Institut Montaigne

• Europe's Energy Transition: A Common Challenge
  

 Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses (IDSA)

• India–Nigeria Relations
  
• Political Changes in Nepal and Bhutan: Emerging Trends in Foreign Policy in Post 2008 Period
  

 Institute for Strategic, Political, Security and Economic Consultancy (ISPSW)

• From Stockholm to Glasgow: 50 Years of UN Environment Conventions  

 Institute for the Study of War

• Russia in Review: September 22 – October 5, 2021
  

 Institute of International Affairs (Istituto Affari Internazionali) 

• Conceptualising the Multi-Actor Character of EU(rope)'s Foreign Policy
  
• Hirak's Trajectory and the "New Algeria"
  
• The Internal Contestation of EU Foreign and Security Policy. A Literature Review of the Implications of Intra-EU Contestation on Crises and Conflicts
  
• An International Digital Yuan: (Vane) Ambitions, (Excessive) Alarmism and (Pragmatic) Expectations
  
• One Belt One Voice: Chinese Media in Italy
  
• Silk Road Academic Connections: China–Italy Cooperation in Higher Education and Its Implications for the West
  

 Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA)

• The Need for Transparency on Insider Threats: Improving Information Sharing Between Government and Industry
  

 International Crisis Group

• Oil or Nothing: Dealing with South Sudan’s Bleeding Finances
  

 Jamestown Foundation

• China Brief, October 8, 2021, v. 21, no. 19
  
• In China’s Shifting Historical Narrative, “War of Resistance" with Japan Retains Key Role
• Far From a Panopticon, Social Credit Focuses on Legal Violations
• China’s Development of Hypersonic Missiles and Thought on Hypersonic Defense
• Win Some, Lose Some: China’s Campaign for Global Media Influence
• Opportunities and Challenges for China's Plans in Afghanistan
• Terrorism Monitor, October 7, 2021, v. 19, no. 19  
• Islamic State’s Canadian ‘Voice’ Facing Terrorism Charges in the U.S.
• Kyrgyzstan Opens Dialogue with the Taliban Amid Russian Military Maneuvers
• TM Interview with Chairman of the Kazakhstan Council on International Relations’ Erlan Karin
• Houthi Militants in Ansar Allah Move Toward Marib in Yemen
• India’s  Cautious  and  Calculated Approach  to  the  Taliban’s  Islamic Emirate in Afghanistan

 Martens Centre for European Studies

• Back to Geneva: Reinterpreting Asylum in the EU
  

 Migration Policy Institute

• African Migration through the Americas: Drivers, Routes, and Policy Responses 
  
• Toward a Better Immigration System: Fixing Immigration Governance at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security  

 Monument Lab

• National Monument Audit
  

 National Academies Press

• DoD Engagement with Its Manufacturing Innovation Institutes: Phase 2 Study Final Report
  

 National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START)

• Extremism in the Ranks and After
  

 National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)

• Maintaining the Stockpile
  
• Transparency in the U.S. Nuclear Weapons Stockpile 
  

 National Institute for Public Policy (NIPP)

• Missile Defense and the Space Arena
  

 National Security Archive

• Declassified Documents Key to Judgment against Colombian Paramilitary
  

 Naval War College

• International Law Studies, 2021, v. 97, issue 1
  
• Know Thy Enemy: The Use of Biometrics in Military Operations and Humanitarian Law
  

 Norwegian Defence Research Establishment

• Modeling Underwater Explosions: Extending Charles to FIVER
  

 Observer Research Foundation

• Gender Gap in Agriculture and the ‘South Asian Enigma’
  
• Maritime Security, Peacekeeping, and Counterterrorism: Pillars of India’s UNSC Presidency
  
• The Policy and Operational Challenges in Formulating India’s New Foreign Trade Policy
  
• Strengthening Global Rule-Making: India’s Inclusion in the UN Security Council 
  
• The Sustainability Thread in India’s Development Partnerships
  

 Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) 

• Border Management and Human Rights
  
• Model Guidance on Sensitive and Respectful Treatment of Hate Crime Victims in the Criminal Justice System
  

Pew Research Center

• Rising Share of U.S. Adults Are Living Without a Spouse or Partner
  

 Policy Exchange (UK)

• Knife Crime in the Capital: How Gangs are Drawing Another Generation into a Life of Violent Crime
  

 Polish Institute of International Affairs

• Possible Instruments to Better Operationalise the EU Strategy Towards Russia
  

 Radicalisation Awareness Network Centre of Excellence

• Accurate, Timely, Interoperable? Data Management in the Asylum Procedure
  
• Attracting and Protecting Seasonal Workers from Third Countries in the EU
  
• Lone Actors in Digital Environments
  
• Returning to Extremism: An Overview on Terrorist Reoffending and Current Challenges  

 RAND Corporation

• China-Russia Cooperation: Determining Factors, Future Trajectories, Implications for the United States
  
• Going to the Doctor: Rideshare as Nonemergency Medical Transportation
  
• Handbook for Tactical Operations in the Information Environment
  
• Increasing Efficiency and Incentives for Performance in the Army's Selective Reenlistment Bonus (SRB) Program
  
• Organizational and Cultural Causes of Army First-Term Attrition
  
• Racial Disparities in Misdemeanor Speeding Convictions
  
• Toward a Unified Multiscale Computational Model of the Human Body's Immediate Responses to Blast-Related Trauma: A Review of the Scientific Literature
  

Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

• Illegal Wildlife Trade in Uganda: Tracking Progress on 'Following the Money'
  

 S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies

• Malaysia Policies and Interests in the South China Sea
  

 Small Wars Journal

• The Afghan Air Force: A Harsh Lesson in the Expensive Game of Airpower Reconstruction
  
• Countering China’s Gray Zone Strategy
  
• Drone Strikes Gone Wrong: Fixing a Strategic Problem
  
• Hybrid Warfare and Active Measures
  

 Soufan Center

• A Perfect Storm: Insurrection, Incitement, And The Violent Far-Right Movement
  

 South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA)

• COVID-19 and its Impact on Senegal’s Macroeconomic Structure
  
• Macroeconomic Policy Development in Tanzania
  

 Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR)

• SIGAR-21-50-AR Post-Peace Planning in Afghanistan: State and USAID Were Awaiting Results of Peace Negotiations Before Developing Future Reconstruction Plans
  

 Stimson Center

• A Multilevel Approach to Addressing Emerging Technologies in Nuclear Security
  
• Nuclear Security in a Time of Crisis
  
• A Political and Diplomatic Case for Protection of Civilians at NATO
  

 Syria Justice and Accountability Centre (SJAC)

• Inside the Raslan Trial: Good Cop – Bad Cop
  

 Taylor & Francis

• Policing and Society, 2021
• Cultural and Symbolic Capital in the Market for Security: Police-Private Security Relations in Mexico and the United Kingdom [open access article]
  
• ‘My Best Day Will Be My Last Day!’: Appreciating Appreciative Inquiry in Police Research [open access article]
  

 UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)

• Adopting Good Practices on Public Debt Management in Asia and the Pacific
  
• Asia-Pacific Trade Facilitation Report 2021: Supply Chains of Critical Goods Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic—Disruptions, Recovery, and Resilience
  
• Debt-for-Climate Swaps as a Tool to Support the Implementation of the Paris Agreement
  
• Green and Climate Finance Options to Support the Post-Covid-19 Pandemic Recovery and Climate Action
  
• Will I be Rich if I Come from an Impoverished Family? Improving Intergenerational Mobility in Asia and the Pacific
  

 UN Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR)

• ICTs, International Security, and Cybercrime
  

 UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)

• Cocaine Insights 2 - Cocaine: A Spectrum of Products
  
• Drug Prevention and Healthy Development of Children: Caring For Your Child In Crisis Situations
  

 UN Women

• Effective, Decisive, and Inclusive: Women’s Leadership in COVID-19 Response and Recovery
  
• Humanitarian Action and Disaster Risk Reduction: 2020 Annual Report
  
• UN Women Strategic Plan 2022–2025
  

 U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC)

• The Operational Environment (2021-2030):  Great Power Competition, Crisis, and Conflict
  

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

• Washington and the Next Arab Spring
  

 White House

• Strengthening America's Military Families
  
• Vaccination Requirements Are Helping Vaccinate More People, Protect Americans from COVID-19, and Strengthen the Economy
  

 White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ)

• Federal Climate Adaption Plans [20+ agency plans]
  

 William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies

• Conventional and Health Geopolitics in the Contemporary Caribbean
  

 Wilson Center

• #EndSARS Youth Protests in Nigeria: Lessons and Opportunities for Regional Stability
  
• Lessons from Street Protests as a Peacemaking Process
  
• The Mosaic Approach: A Multidimensional Strategy for Strengthening America's Critical Minerals Supply Chain
  

 World Bank

• 2022 International Debt Statistics
  
• Overconfident : How Economic and Health Fault Lines Left the Middle East and North Africa Ill-Prepared to Face COVID-19
  
• Recovering Growth : Rebuilding Dynamic Post‐COVID-19 Economies amid Fiscal Constraints
  
• Shifting Gears : Digitization and Services-Led Development
  

 World Economic Forum

• A Policy Framework for Responsible Limits on Facial Recognition Use Case: Law Enforcement Investigations
  
• UHC 2.0: Charting a Course to Sustainable Healthcare and Finance in the Asia-Pacific